Dhaka February 22, 2025, 3:46 pm
Among the fresh fatalities, six were males and three were females
A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the vaccine doses landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 1:40am
The minister stated this at a meeting on healthcare and development issues of the country organised by UHFPO, an organisation of Upazila Health Officers, at Hotel Intercontinental in the capital
The vaccines -- all Pfizer-BioNTech -- are being donated through the World Health Organization's Covax program
Across eight divisions, 66,25,123 people were vaccinated, "which is a record number of jabs inoculated in Bangladesh in a single day"
The vaccine jabs will be administered from 9 am at 6,000 centres across the country, he said adding that in the first two hours women above 50 years and physically-challenged people will get the jabs on priority basis
A cargo flight of National Airlines, carrying the vaccine doses gifted by the USA, will land at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 10:15 PM
"For a COVID-free world, we must ensure universal and affordable access to vaccines for people across the world," she told in her UNGA address in Bangla as previous years, following Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Muj
A regular flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines landed at Shahjalal International Airport with the vaccine consignment around 2 am
For effective global vaccination, COVID-19 vaccines need to be declared as “global public goods
The decision to restart the vaccine export has come ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the United States to attend the UN General Assembly as well as Washington DC starting Tuesday (Sept 21) where vaccine
The children will be inoculated with US-made Pfizer vaccine doses as it is suitable for them
Government is planning to vaccinate 1.5 to 2 crore people from the next month
A regular flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines landed at Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 12.44 am with the vaccine consignment
The government has not declared officially but the health ministry has already finalised a private company to conduct PCR tests at the airports through covered vans with all necessary facilities to run Covid-19 test and prepa
The decision was taken in a video-conference chaired by Prime Minister's Principal Secretary Dr. Ahmad Kaikaus on Monday afternoon
According to the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO), vaccination of school and college students will depend on their age
The consignment, which was scheduled to reach Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on August 30, will reach Dhaka on today
The vaccine doses were being preserved in the warehouse of Beximco Pharmaceuticals
Among the fresh fatalities, 41 were males and 39 were females